Flashpoint - The special command
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Flashpoint - The special command |
| Original title | Flashpoint |
 | |
| Country of production | Canada |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 2008–2012 |
| length | 45 minutes |
| Episodes | 75 in 5 seasons |
| genre | Police series, action series |
| idea | Mark Ellis, Stephanie Morgenstern |
| production | Anne Marie La Traverse |
| music | Amin Bhatia |
| First broadcast | July 11, 2008 (Canada) on CTV |
| German-language first broadcast |
May 15, 2009 on SF two |
| occupation | |
Flashpoint - The Special Command is a Canadian police television series that has aired on CTV in Canada since 2008 and on CBS in the US until the channel switched to Ion in the middle of season four . It is about the Strategic Response Unit (SRU), a fictional special unit of the police in Toronto , which solves extreme situations for which the regular police forces are not appropriately trained and equipped. The German-language first broadcast took place on May 15, 2009 on SF two .
In June 2011, a fifth season was ordered, which is also the final season of the series. With the thirteen episodes of the fifth season, the series comes to a total of 75 episodes.
action
The series is about the Strategic Response Unit (SRU), a fictional tactical special police unit in the Canadian city of Toronto , similar to the real emergency task force of the Toronto Police Service .
The SRU is tasked with solving extreme situations for which the regular police forces are not appropriately trained and equipped: hostage-taking , bomb threats and heavily armed criminals are common operations. The unit is well equipped with explosives , tasers , submachine guns , assault rifles and sniper rifles as well as acoustic and visual monitoring and listening technology. However, intuition , judgment and negotiation skills are among the first tools in solving the situation.
The perpetrators are rarely “regular” criminals, but mostly ordinary people who are led to their actions by extreme situations.
Specialties of the team members
Ed Lane: Marksman, Tactical Specialist and Team Leader
Sgt. Gregory "Greg" Parker: Negotiator, Chief of Team 1
Samuel "Sam" Braddock: Marksman, Military Strategy Specialist
Julianna "Jules" Callaghan: Negotiator, Sharpshooter
Michelangelo "Spike" Scarlatti : Explosives specialist and computer
specialist Kevin "Wordy" Wordsworth: Specialist in tactical advancement and close combat
occupation
The synchronous work took place at EuroSync in Berlin . Peter Krone wrote the dialogue books, Dagmar Preuss directed the dialogue.
| role | actor | Voice actor | Main role (episodes) |
Supporting role (episodes) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edward "Ed" Lane | Hugh Dillon | Michael Iwannek | 1x01-5x13 | |
| Sgt. Gregory "Greg" Parker | Enrico Colantoni | Detlef Bierstedt | 1x01-5x13 | |
| Julianna "Jules" Callaghan | Amy Jo Johnson | Vera Teltz | 1x01-5x13 | |
| Michelangelo "Spike" Scarlatti | Sergio Di Zio | Rainer Fritzsche | 1x01-5x13 | |
| Kevin "Wordy" Wordsworth | Michael Cram | Tobias Kluckert | 1x01-4x05 | 4x09-5x13 |
| Lewis "Lou" Young | Mark Taylor | Peter Lonzek | 1x01-2x10 | 2x14, 3x01 |
| Dr. Amanda Luria | Ruth Marshall | Gundi Eberhard | 1x01–1x17 | |
| Sam Braddock | David Paetkau | Til Endemann | 1x02-5x13 | 1x01 |
| Leah Kerns | Olunike Adeliyi | Claudia Kleiber | 2x11-2x18, 5x03-5x13 | |
| Rafik "Raf" Rousseau | Clé Bennett | Jan-David Rönfeldt | 4x06-5x01 | |
| Sally LaFlamme | Lisa Marcos | Katrin Zimmermann | 1x01–1x04 | |
| Kira | Pascale Hutton | Manja Doering | 1x09–2x01 | |
| Donna Sabine | Jessica Steen | Claudia Urbschat-Mingues | 2x01-2x10 | |
| Winnie Camden | Tattiawna Jones | Julia digit | 2x06-5x13 |
Charisma
Canada
When it first aired in the summer of 2008, Flashpoint reached around 1.1 million viewers on CTV in Canada and around 8.13 million in the United States on CBS, making it the most successful program of the evening. The series has now been extended for a second season, which aired between January 9 and September 25, 2009. Production for a further 13 episodes began in January 2010. The third season has been aired since July 16, 2010.
The broadcaster CTV announced on June 3, 2010 at its program presentation for the 2010/2011 season that Flashpoint would receive a fourth season. Although the fourth season had not yet started, CTV announced the production of a fifth season. The series was discontinued after the fifth season. The last season aired from September 20 to December 13, 2012.
United States
As a result of the American screenwriters' strike, CBS bought the series. CBS always wanted to broadcast the series at the same time as CTV in Canada, but CBS found no more loopholes in the program after the strike. On July 9, 2010, CBS began broadcasting the third season in the USA , which Swiss television had already broadcast since June 2010. Thus, for the first time in the history of the station, Swiss television began broadcasting a Canadian series in German-speaking countries before it was first broadcast in the USA.
Germany
In 2009 the first season of Flashpoint ran on the German pay TV channel 13th Street . The second season has been running there since June 2010 and the fourth since May 2012.
On German free TV, RTL II took over the broadcast of the series from May 6, 2010, every Thursday at 8:15 p.m. During the soccer world championship 2010, RTL II interrupted the broadcast after the episode Am Abgrund for 2 weeks. The second season followed immediately from July 22nd on the same slot until RTL 2 canceled the series unannounced on October 21st with episode 29 (16th episode of the second season). Episodes 19, 20, 22, 25, 26 and 28 had previously been left out without giving a reason, which made it much more difficult for the viewer to develop the characters in the second season. When the missing episodes will be broadcast has not yet been announced. From December 23, 2013, the fifth and so far last season ran on Wednesdays at 12:35 am on RTL II.
Austria
ORF eins began broadcasting the first season on May 5, 2010. The series will be broadcast on Wednesday as a follow-up to the main evening program. From August 4, 2010, the successful series on ORF one after the broadcast episode For the Protection of Evil was canceled for the time being.
Switzerland
SF two broadcasts Flashpoint - The Special Command as a free TV premiere and exclusively in two-channel sound in German / English. Between May 15 and August 14, 2009, the entire first and the first three episodes of the second season were broadcast on Fridays at 8:50 p.m. Another seven episodes were broadcast irregularly between December 18, 2009 and April 2, 2010. Since May 26th, the remaining episodes of the second season have been broadcast on Wednesday evening at 11:10 p.m. The third season of Flashpoint - The Special Command will also take over SF two from June 16, 2010 at around 11:25 p.m. as a free TV premiere. The third season ran every Wednesday evening at around 11:20 pm during the 2010 World Cup. After the World Cup, it ran again every Wednesday evening at around 10:30 pm. The broadcast of the third season ended on August 11, 2010.
Season 4 has been running on SF two since January 16, 2012.
Episode list
- The episodes are arranged according to the official order.
|
Number (total) |
Number (season) |
Original title | German title | First broadcast (CTV / CBS) |
First broadcast (SF two) |
First broadcast (ORF one) |
First broadcast (RTL II) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 01 | Scorpio | Scorpio | July 11, 2008 | May 15, 2009 | May 5, 2010 | May 6, 2010 |
| 02 | 02 | First in line | Waiting list | July 18, 2008 | May 15, 2009 | May 12, 2010 | May 13, 2010 |
| 03 | 03 | The Element of Surprise | In the line of fire | July 24, 2008 | May 22, 2009 | May 12, 2010 | May 20, 2010 |
| 04 | 04 | Asking For Flowers | fear | July 31, 2008 | June 5, 2009 | May 19, 2010 | May 27, 2010 |
| 05 | 05 | Who's George? | Without any hope | August 7, 2009 | June 12, 2009 | May 19, 2010 | June 3, 2010 |
| 06 | 06 | Attention shoppers | In the abyss | August 14, 2008 | June 19, 2009 | May 26, 2010 | June 10, 2010 |
| 07 | 07 | He Knows His Brother | Pushed out | August 21, 2008 | June 26, 2009 | May 26, 2010 | July 1, 2010 |
| 08 | 08 | Never kissed a girl | In case of doubt against the accused | September 11, 2008 | July 10, 2009 | June 2, 2010 | July 8, 2010 |
| 09 | 09 | Planets Aligned | Paradise lost | September 18, 2008 | July 24, 2009 | June 16, 2010 | July 15, 2010 |
| 10 | 10 | Eagle Two | Moment of truth | January 9, 2009 | July 31, 2009 | June 30, 2010 | July 22, 2010 |
| 11 | 11 | Backwards Day | Too many losers | January 16, 2009 | August 7, 2009 | June 30, 2010 | July 29, 2010 |
| 12 | 12 | Haunting the Barn | Ghosts of the past | January 23, 2009 | August 14, 2009 | July 7, 2010 | August 5, 2010 |
| 13 | 13 | Between Heartbeats | Sons of war | February 13, 2009 | December 18, 2009 | July 14, 2010 | August 12, 2010 |
|
Number (total) |
Number (season) |
Original title | German title | First broadcast (CTV / CBS) |
First broadcast (SF two) |
First broadcast (ORF one) |
First broadcast (RTL II) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14th | 01 | Business as usual | Homeless | February 27, 2009 | January 1, 2010 | July 21, 2010 | August 19, 2010 |
| 15th | 02 | The Fortress | The fortress | March 6, 2009 | January 8, 2010 | July 28, 2010 | August 26, 2010 |
| 16 | 03 | Clean hands | To protect evil | March 13, 2009 | January 15, 2010 | 4th August 2010 | September 2, 2010 |
| 17th | 04 | Aisle 13 | friends for ever | April 3, 2009 | January 22, 2010 | February 8, 2012 | September 9, 2010 |
| 18th | 05 | The Perfect Family | The perfect family | April 10, 2009 | March 18, 2010 | February 15, 2012 | September 16, 2010 |
| 19th | 06 | Remote control | The betrayal | April 24, 2009 | April 2, 2010 | February 22, 2012 | February 28, 2013 |
| 20th | 07 | Perfect Storm | Rampage | May 1, 2009 | May 26, 2010 | February 29, 2012 | February 18, 2012 |
| 21st | 08 | Last dance | The last Dance | May 8, 2009 | June 2, 2010 | March 21, 2012 | September 23, 2010 |
| 22nd | 09 | Exit wounds | A better future | May 15, 2009 | June 9, 2010 | April 11, 2012 | October 15, 2010 |
|
Number (total) |
Number (season) |
Original title | German title | First broadcast (CTV) |
First broadcast (CBS) |
First broadcast (SF two) |
First broadcast (RTL II) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | 10 | One wrong move | One wrong move | September 25, 2009 | June 4th 2010 | June 16, 2010 | September 30, 2010 |
| 24 | 11 | Never let you down | Grief and pain | October 2, 2009 | June 11, 2010 | June 23, 2010 | October 7, 2010 |
| 25th | 12 | Just a man | The riot | October 9, 2009 | July 9, 2010 | June 30, 2010 | March 14, 2013 |
| 26th | 13 | Custody | care | October 16, 2009 | June 25, 2010 | July 7, 2010 | |
| 27 | 14th | Coming to You Live | To broadcast | October 23, 2009 | July 2, 2010 | July 14, 2010 | October 14, 2010 |
| 28 | 15th | The Farm | The farm | October 30, 2009 | June 18, 2010 | July 21, 2010 | 21st March 2013 |
| 29 | 16 | You think you know someone | The protector | November 6, 2009 | July 30, 2010 | July 28, 2010 | October 21, 2010 |
| 30th | 17th | The Good Citizen | The Samaritan | November 13, 2009 | July 23, 2010 | 4th August 2010 | March 28, 2013 |
| 31 | 18th | Behind the blue line | Behind enemy lines | November 20, 2009 | July 9, 2010 | August 11, 2010 | April 4, 2013 |
|
Number (total) |
Number (season) |
Original title | German title | First broadcast (CTV) |
First broadcast (CBS) |
First broadcast (SF two) |
First broadcast (RTL II) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32 | 01 | Unconditional love | Unconditional love | July 16, 2010 | July 16, 2010 | March 9, 2011 | February 25, 2012 |
| 33 | 02 | Severed ties | Severed ties | August 6, 2010 | August 6, 2010 | March 16, 2011 | February 25, 2012 |
| 34 | 03 | Follow the leader | The wrong friends | August 13, 2010 | August 13, 2010 | March 23, 2011 | March 3, 2012 |
| 35 | 04 | Whatever it takes | By all means | August 20, 2010 | August 20, 2010 | March 30, 2011 | March 3, 2012 |
| 36 | 05 | The Other Lane | Alone among wolves | September 3, 2010 | September 3, 2010 | April 6, 2011 | March 10, 2012 |
| 37 | 06 | Jumping at Shadows | On the run | September 10, 2010 | September 10, 2010 | April 13, 2011 | March 10, 2012 |
| 38 | 07 | Acceptable Risk | Personal motives | 17th September 2010 | 17th September 2010 | April 20, 2011 | March 17, 2012 |
| 39 | 08 | Collateral Damage | A second opinion | January 4, 2011 | May 6, 2011 | April 27, 2011 | March 17, 2012 |
| 40 | 09 | Thicker than blood | Thicker than blood | January 11, 2011 | May 13, 2011 | May 4, 2011 | March 31, 2012 |
| 41 | 10 | terror | terror | January 18, 2011 | June 3, 2011 | May 11, 2011 | March 31, 2012 |
| 42 | 11 | No promises | No promises | January 25, 2011 | May 20, 2011 | May 18, 2011 | April 7, 2012 |
| 43 | 12 | I'd do anything | The informant | February 1, 2011 | June 10, 2011 | May 25, 2011 | April 7, 2012 |
| 44 | 13 | Fault lines | Weak points | February 6, 2011 | June 17, 2011 | June 1, 2011 | April 4, 2013 |
|
Number (total) |
Number (season) |
Original title | German title | First broadcast (CTV) |
First broadcast (CBS / ION) |
First broadcast (SF two) |
First broadcast (RTL II) |
First Air (13th Street Universal) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45 | 01 | Personal Effects | A team on probation | July 8, 2011 | July 8, 2011 | January 16, 2012 | April 11, 2013 | May 6, 2012 |
| 46 | 02 | Good cop | At the wrong place | July 15, 2011 | July 15, 2011 | January 23, 2012 | April 11, 2013 | May 13, 2012 |
| 47 | 03 | Run, Jaime, run | Flaming fame | July 22, 2011 | July 22, 2011 | January 30, 2012 | April 18, 2013 | May 13, 2012 |
| 48 | 04 | Through A Glass Darkly | Clouded memories | July 29, 2011 | July 29, 2011 | February 6, 2012 | April 18, 2013 | May 20, 2012 |
| 49 | 05 | The Better Man | The head of the kite | August 5, 2011 | August 5, 2011 | February 13, 2012 | April 25, 2013 | May 20, 2012 |
| 50 | 06 | A day in the life | A day in the life | August 12, 2011 | August 12, 2011 | February 20, 2012 | April 25, 2013 | May 27, 2012 |
| 51 | 07 | Shockwave | Bomb alarm | August 19, 2011 | August 19, 2011 | February 8, 2013 | May 2, 2013 | May 27, 2012 |
| 52 | 08 | Grounded | Deadly stopover | September 19, 2011 | October 18, 2011 | February 22, 2013 | May 2, 2013 | June 3, 2012 |
| 53 | 09 | The War Within | The war within | September 27, 2011 | December 13, 2011 | February 15, 2013 | May 9, 2013 | June 3, 2012 |
| 54 | 10 | The Cost Of Doing Business | Just a business | 4th October 2011 | October 25, 2011 | 1st of March 2013 | May 9, 2013 | June 10, 2012 |
| 55 | 11 | Wild card | Everything on one card | October 11, 2011 | November 1, 2011 | March 8, 2013 | May 16, 2013 | June 10, 2012 |
| 56 | 12 | A New Life | A new life | November 1, 2011 | November 8, 2011 | 15 March 2013 | May 16, 2013 | 17th June 2012 |
| 57 | 13 | A call to arms | China Town | November 8, 2011 | November 22, 2011 | 22th of March 2013 | May 23, 2013 | 17th June 2012 |
| 58 | 14th | Day game | day of reckoning | November 15, 2011 | November 29, 2011 | April 5, 2013 | May 23, 2013 | June 24, 2012 |
| 59 | 15th | Blue on Blue | A professional on the net | November 22, 2011 | December 6, 2011 | April 12th, 2013 | May 30, 2013 | June 24, 2012 |
| 60 | 16 | Team player | Team player | November 28, 2011 | January 10, 2012 | March 29, 2013 | May 30, 2013 | July 1, 2012 |
| 61 | 17th | Priority on Life | Deadly vaccine | December 6, 2011 | 17th January 2012 | April 19, 2013 | 6th June 2013 | July 1, 2012 |
| 62 | 18th | Slow burn | Fire devil | December 13, 2011 | January 24, 2012 | April 26, 2013 | 6th June 2013 | July 1, 2012 |
|
Number (total) |
Number (season) |
Original title | German title | First broadcast (CTV) |
First broadcast (ION) |
German language first broadcast (13th Street Universal) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 63 | 01 | Broken Peace | Destroyed peace | 20th September 2012 | October 16, 2012 | 11th March 2013 |
| 64 | 02 | No kind of life | No way of life | September 27, 2012 | October 23, 2012 | 11th March 2013 |
| 65 | 03 | Run to me | Stars in the desert | 4th October 2012 | October 30, 2012 | March 18, 2013 |
| 66 | 04 | Eyes In | Strange eyes | October 11, 2012 | November 6, 2012 | March 18, 2013 |
| 67 | 05 | Sons of the Father | Sons of father | October 18, 2012 | November 13, 2012 | March 25.2013 |
| 68 | 06 | Below the surface | Under water | October 25, 2012 | November 27, 2012 | March 25.2013 |
| 69 | 07 | Forget Oblivion | The perfect weapon | November 1, 2012 | 4th December 2012 | April 1, 2013 |
| 70 | 08 | We Take Care of Our Own | A safe house | November 8, 2012 | December 11, 2012 | April 1, 2013 |
| 71 | 09 | Lawmen | Men of the law | November 15, 2012 | January 8, 2013 | April 8, 2013 |
| 72 | 10 | A World of Their Own | In a better world | November 22, 2012 | November 20, 2012 | April 8, 2013 |
| 73 | 11 | Fit for Duty | The black holes of the soul | November 29, 2012 | December 18, 2012 | April 15, 2013 |
| 74 | 12 | Keep the Peace (1) | Keep the peace (1) | December 6, 2012 | January 15, 2013 | April 15, 2013 |
| 75 | 13 | Keep the Peace (2) | Keep the peace (2) | December 13, 2012 | January 22, 2013 | April 22, 2013 |
DVD release
Canada / United States
- Season 1 was released on October 13, 2009
- Season 2.1 was released in Canada on March 23, 2010 and in the US on May 25, 2010
- Season 2.2 was released in Canada on November 2, 2010
- Season 3 was released in Canada on May 22, 2012
- Season 4 was released in Canada on October 16, 2012
- Season 5 was released in Canada on May 7, 2013
German-speaking area
- Season 1 was released on May 28, 2010.
- Season 2 was released on October 1, 2010.
- Season 3 was released on May 27, 2011.
- Season 4 was released on December 2, 2011.
- Season 5 was released on December 14, 2012.
- Season 6 was released on March 22, 2013.
- Season 7 was released on June 14, 2013.
Season 2 was released split, once as season 2 with the 9 episodes of season 2.1 and once as season 3 with the remaining 9 episodes of season 2.2.
Season 4 contains all 13 episodes of the third season. The DVD box contains episodes 32–44 accordingly.
Season 5 contains episodes 1-10 of the fourth season. The DVD box will contain episodes 45-54, with the exception of episode 8 Fatal Stopover , ie episode 52. This is missing on the DVD.
Season 6 contains episodes 11-18 and 10-18 of the fourth season. This means that the episodes 55-62 and 54-62 are included on the DVD box. The reason for the discrepancy in the sequence of the episodes is the omission of episode 8, Fatal Stopover of season 5. Since this was inserted in the DVD box of season 6, there are episodes on the DVDs. Episode 8 Fatal Landing , which was missing from season 5, can now be found as episode 12 on this DVD box. Next, episode 16 team player was brought forward to episode 14 on the DVD box. Season 6 thus includes nine episodes.
Season 7 contains episodes 63-75 of the regular fifth and final season.
Special
The number of seasons and also the number of episodes in the seasons varies by country:
- In Canada, the first season has 9 episodes and the second season has 22 episodes.
- In the USA and Switzerland, however, the second season was split again, so that the series was broadcast there in 3 seasons.
- In Germany, the first season consists of 13 episodes, exactly as many as in the USA and Switzerland.
Web links
- Flashpoint - The special command in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official Website (CBS)
Individual evidence
- ^ Dubbing actor in the German dubbing index
- ↑ Manuel Weiß: Flashpoint impresses with 8.1 million viewers . Quota meter. July 13, 2007. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
- ↑ Flashpoint: CTV commissions fourth season . Serial junkies . Retrieved August 9, 2010.
- ↑ Flashpoint: CTV orders fifth season . Serial junkies . Retrieved June 2, 2011.
- ↑ bellmediapr. Approx
- ↑ Flashpoint - The special command - broadcast dates on RTL II
- ↑ Flashpoint on Wishlist.de
- ↑ Flashpoint - The special command - broadcast dates on ORF one
- ↑ Flashpoint: New episodes from January 16, 2012 . broadcastings.sf.tv. Retrieved January 16, 2012.
- ↑ Flashpoint - The Special Command, Season 1 Amazon.de
- ↑ Flashpoint - The Special Command, Season 3 Amazon.de
- ↑ Flashpoint - The Special Command, Season 4 Amazon.de
- ↑ Flashpoint - The Special Command, Season 5 Amazon.de
- ↑ Flashpoint - The Special Command, Season 6 Amazon.de
- ↑ Flashpoint - The Special Command, Season 7 Amazon.de
- ↑ Flashpoint - The Special Command, Season 4 - Episodes ofdb.de/
- ↑ Flashpoint - The Special Command, Season 5 - Episodes Kochmedia-film.de
- ↑ Flashpoint - The Special Command, Season 6 - Episodes ofdb.de/